this is really just a one-off ramble or something..

everyone talks about the greater freedom capitalism has incorporated with respect to the lower and middle/labor classes.  but has anyone evaluated the greater degree to which one can become indebted?  i dont know...there are surely a lot of coincident social freedoms going along with capitalism, the free market, but what about economic freedom?  surely, there are two ways to look at economic freedom, the freedom to become wealthy and the freedom to become shackled and poor?  more people across all classes can rise up to the upper class


this of course ignores the inherent unethical nature of capitalism in the false sense of competition, pitting human on human..where i may not succeed without your failure, your exploitation.  further, its a false sense of competition bc the main conveyor is not ingenuity but money.  and possession of money is oe of the most arbitrary things in the world, in the view of hereditary inheritance.  also, it's problematic because it causes stagnation.  the rich write the rules to their advantage through lobbyists and campaign contributions.  obviously this is nothing new.  just a rant.  but this is all at the heart of my critique of society and what i think is wrong with the way we're living.  we're allowing them to define the rules of the game as money and pleasure collection.  this has been a problem with humans for millenia.  plato and aristotle both wrote about these as false, fleeting happiness'.  but i just feel like the people with the 'true freedom' of wealth have bought off the rest of us with the freedom to consume the drugs of our particular pleasures.  we're concerned with having, possessing pleasure in the moment, not who we are when the moment stops and the traffic jam of our past honks a thousand horns.

regrouping

the attempt thus far...to sit in rumination on the human lobby's definition, or towards constructing a manifesto of sorts, is completely against the spirit of the human lobby.

i could write it out..what it means to me..the particular causes i support. but that would just be my own opinion and in its solitary state useless. granted, it could be useful as a jumping off point for discussion, a first perspective. but i already know what i think. the attempt to put it into words just seems unnecessary, a put-on, aesthetics of the worst kind, trying to fit some cookie cutter movie plot , trying to fulfill some egomaniacal fantasy. it seems more important to gather, make a general pitch, and see how it goes from there. not limit their own conception to a response to mine and a comparison of difference. give the basic idea and get their pure riff of it.

on the intersection of 'the good life' and sadomasochism

pedal to the me d/t al

there isnt a moment to lose

i can't stop thinking about

what has to be done
what has to be done
what has to be done
what has to be done

i know and
then i don't
i won't and
then i will
i will and
i don't wait
for the kids to go to bed

rough amalgams
of Christmas' Past
line my longjohns
i'll never escape them
don't want to escape them

constricting...

...invigorating

like,
some psychic primae noctis,
i can't help but bow to my Lord.


_________

"did i?"

"should i?"

"are you?"

the penguin huddles (you're gonna catch pneumonia!)

on suhla

a friend recently introduced me to sulha, an organization focused on ending religious wars in the middle east, by transcending the religious and political, by resolving to make this a solution of the people, not of the rulers.

the human lobby connection is obvious: sulha endeavors towards dialogue across ideological bounds - and the strongest of contemporary ideologies: judaism, islam, and christianity.

i'm sure there are many differences between their prerogative and our own, but the congruency is the material, determining factor: we each desire peace so that we may live as we will and not as mere descendants in a decades, centuries-long struggle, but rather facing our inheritance as human beings, as the recipients and actors in a millenia-long struggle towards freedom. and we mean true freedom, real autonomy and empowerment. real opportunities.

i'm probably inscribing my own views somewhere along the way here, but the fundamental intersection exists: the desire/need to take that power that has been and can be left in the stars ( or to our relative kings and gods), and fill our cups - and the cups of our neighbors, community-wide - moving passed dogma, ultimately reaching autonomy and the possibility for real Human flourishing

broad strokes of an idea

purpose*

use available/appropriate mediums to discuss/report/speculate/analyze the experience and meaning of being human, contemporaneously, historically, and eternally

bridge ideological gaps, bringing both disparate points of view and communities together. the latter composed of people who share philosophy but for a variety of possible reasons have been isolated. common reasons include cultural marginalization and characteristics essential to the philosophy which don't commonly or naturally precipitate, suppose, or contemplate organization

engender more cohesive human community, focus on unification

play role of The Human Lobby (another possible mag name)

transcend the political; preempt political with social, community-wide action

*there will be, of course, more specific ways to characterize the overall philosophy (which is to day the purpose), but, for now it remains very much amorphous, awaiting not only the prerogatives and particulars of artists-yet-to-be-determined but the push-and-pull resulting from the interaction of these common and disparate philosophies. therefore, in the interim, this is all i'm willing to identify as far as content, but i most definitely have my contribution to this philosophical scrum.

format

web-based, no physical product^
advantages: lower production cost and wider spectrum of available mediums outside written word and images, that which can be expressed in print

^ not necessarily true. there is possibility for a pamphletized version of some of content, but it will mos likely not try to be all encompassing. the need and want for the pamphlet coming from the dynamics internal to and created by the particulars

mediums*

written word:
short-story and novel-length (perhaps serialized) fiction, poetry, journalism, philosophy,hard/soft science and political essays; more "pop" cultural directed essays on topics like music, movies, television; and the intersection of the foregoing

music (#)

moving image (#)s:
short and full-length documentaries, short and full-length movies, serial programming

still images (#):
photographs, paintings (tho this seems to blend with photography since it
would be a photograph of a painting), cartoons and other drawings.

# due to potential physicality, these could be part of an off-shoot project which would basically be an art show covering movies, concerts, painting, photographs, literature and poetry readings etc.

wanted:

peter pans of every variety, proficiency,

wo(men)-children to form

a possibly-more-than=ethereal

community composition

as yet unknown

always unknown

always becoming

always embracing their

our humanity

our fragility

our need

for other

hearts and minds
arms and legs
mouths and hands



rupturing
transcending